Kata kunci : Tekanan darah, Kebiasaan Merokok (jumlah rokok dan lama merokok).
The problem that had been investigated in this research was to determine
whether there is any relationship between smoking habit (number of cigarette and the
longer of smoking) with blood pressure among male students in School of Medicine
University of North Sumatera batch 2007. The purpose of this research is to know
the smoking habit (number of cigarette and the longer of smoking) as one of risk
factors that can increase blood pressure among male students in School of Medicine
University of North Sumatera batch 2007. This is an analytic cross-sectional study
design where the data collection was obtained by taking respondents blood pressure
with sphygmomanometer and then they will be asked whether they are smoking or
not. Respondent were categorized into smoker and non-smoker. The data obtained in
this research was calculated using Anova test statistic with meaningful degree ()=0,
05. The research result shows that the factor that relate with blood pressure is the
number of cigarette being sucked (p= 0,000) and the longer of smoking cigarette (p=
0,000). This research found that there was a significance relationship between
number of cigarette and longer of smoking against blood pressure (p<0.05). There
was a significance relationship between smoking cigarette with blood pressure
among male students in School of Medicine University of North Sumatera batch
2007. The suggestions relate to the finding of this research are: 1) to decrease risk of
hypertension, people should decrease cigarette consume, 2) socialization effort to the
society, relate with hypertension risk factors should be done continually, and 3) for
the next researchers, the result of the research can be a reference.